While celebrating the “great success” of Netflix‘s House Of Cards, CEO Reed Hastings announced today that the company’s Arrested Development series will likely only run one season. “We don’t anticipate being able to do season five, six and seven”, Hastings said at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media and Telecommunications Conference, “and we have less of a stake in it. So it’s really a fantastic one-off which is coming together incredibly.” The Netflix chief today lauded upcoming original programs including Eli Roth’s Hemlock Grove and season two of Lilyhammer and teased the company’s long-term strategies. As for Arrested Development, he said, “think of it as a non-repeatable amazing [sic] whereas the other things that we’re doing [are] trying to figure out a real mechanism where we can build shows and develop franchises over the long term”. The show is set to debut 14 new episodes via Netflix in May.


House of Cards was awful. I question releasing all the episodes at the same time. Stupid move.
Awful?? yeah right…. maybe not break through TV, but clearly better then most programs out right now. And for Netflix first try in original programing I say its a home run for them in terms of quality… get out of here
Whom do you work for? Obviously a competitor…
You are a douche my good man. House of cards was a lot of fun.
I wouldn’t go as far as to call House of Cards awful, but I didn’t think it was very good, and it certainly isn’t even close to being one of the best dramas on television. Even just counting shows that are currently airing, Justified, Enlightened, Girls, and occasionally Shameless are all better (with The Americans looking to be another success for FX).
The fact that you considered Girls to be good programming should negate anything else that you have to say.
Or the fact that you think The Americans is a success.
Clearly he was being czarcastic. Just saw the first ep of Girls second season. Truly awful. Deleted the rest of the season immediately. Struggling to continue watching House of Cards. Some of the silliest dramatic moments ever conceived for a television show. Menopause, DUN-DUN-DUN!!! too flucking funny. Any chance it really does get better?